Stony Brook University Cancer Center Lecture Series 2008 I am happy to inform you that the Stony Brook University Cancer Center will be holding monthly lectures the last Wednesday of every month. Our first lecture will be on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:15pm in the Atkins Learning Center HSC L-4. Please mark your calendar with the following dates. I will inform you of the guest speaker and topic as soon as it becomes available. Light refreshments will be served at 5:00pm. The lecture will start at 5:15pm. Looking forward to seeing you there. Michael Hayman,PhD Associate Director for Research Stony Brook University Cancer Center 2008 Lecture Series Jan 30th Timothy J. Kinsella, M.D. Candidate for Cancer Center Director V.K. Smith Professor and Chairman Department of Radiation Oncology Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Director of Radiation Oncology University Hospitals Health System Ireland Cancer Center "Coordinating DNA mismatch repair and base excision repair of drug and radiation damage: Implications for targeting resistant human cancers" Feb 27th Ute Moll, MD Associate Professor Department of Pathology Mar 26th Kenneth Shroyer, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Pathology Molecular Markers of HPV Infection April 29th Symposium/Wang Center TBA May 28th Christopher S. Lee, MD Assistant Professor Department of Urology Developing Cancer Vaccines for GU Cancers: From Bench to Bedside June 25th Ken Iwata OSI Pharmaceutical “Development of Molecularly Targeted Therapeutics for Cancer: Strategies for Biomarkers and Drug Combinations” July No lecture/summer vacations August No lecture/summer vacations Sept 24th Richard Lin (tentative) Assistant Professor Oct 29th Dr John Haley OSI Pharmaceutical 'Signaling Networks Regulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Nov 19th Emily Chen Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology Tumor microenvironment and organ-specific breast cancer metastasis December No lecture/ holidays